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Which book did you enjoy more P&P or Wuthering Heights?
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Love them both, but I definitely prefer Wuthering Heights.
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P&P and Wuthering Heights are quite difficult to compare. I feel that they were both amazing books but so different. I loved WH but it was so sad to me... How he took his revenge and everything. He couldnt let anything go, he was so bitter and angry.
Wuthering Heights is pretty hard to top for me. It's too unique and powerful. I have much respect for P&P though.Austen's wit is in a league of its own, but I feel an underrated aspect in Wuthering Height is Emily Bronte's wicked sense of humour. Some of the insults and cruelty border upon black humour, especially Heathcliff's putdowns towards his own son.
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book. I have read it several times. I love the conversational tone of the book and it always brings a smile to my face.
Bronte's characters are so much more vibrant and dynamic than the vapid and constrained bourgeois of Austen novels. For me, P&P is as interesting a description of the English landed gentry as any whiny introspective of yuppie-woes would be today - i.e., I can tolerate a boring story, but not a nauseating one.
I'm a huge Pride and Prejudice fan; not so much Wuthering Heights. This thread reminds me, though, of the bit in I Capture the Castle where Rose asks Cassandra if she'd rather live in an Austen world with a bit of Bronte, or a Bronte world with a bit of Austen.
I also love how that question, which Cassandra never answers, sets the tone for so much of the rest of the book.
I prefer Pride and Prejudice...who could refuse Mr. Darcy! Wuthering Heights is more sinister and miserable.
P&P hands down. Incestuous obsession just doesn't float my boat
Connie wrote: "P&P hands down. Incestuous obsession just doesn't float my boat"Haha! I have to agree with you Connie. :)
I say read both because they are way to different to compare and they are both great reads!
Allison wrote: "... P&P always makes me happy and makes me feel good. Wuthering Heights usually gets thrown against a wall because Cathy is a spoiled brat and I hate Heathcliff. ..."I'm ready to throw WH against the wall for the same reasons, but I don't want to break my Kindle.
They're so different! I love them both, but if I had to choose, it would be Wuthering Heights. I don't consider myself a big sap, but my heart ached throughout Wuthering Heights.
Most persons would prefer P&P over WH. This is mostly because of the complex writing and structuring of the novel by Bronte and it is harder to grasps than in P&P. However to compare both books would be like comparing a theme park to a water park. Both books holds its unique appeals but are as equally entertaining anad well written. Austin and Bronte are both legends
orgullo y prejucio definitivamente, sin dudar.
For me there is no comparison between the Brontes and Austen apart from the fact they are all women. Brontes are deep, dark and thought provoking - just my cuppa tea. Austen is lighthearted, frivolous and not much effort or thought required to read - I avoid this sort like the plague.
Reading these posts has been interesting to me because it reflects the arguments at the time the books were written. The Bronte sisters did not admire Jane Austen's writing. Charlotte and Emily especially despised her books. They didn't think they plumbed the depths of human emotion and experience enough. Whereas few people today realize what a pioneer in writing Austen actually was. They just see her as someone who wrote light, fluffy romances and nothing more. She was the first to write realistic stories about (what was for her) everyday life. Her novels were vastly different than anything else up to that time and she revolutionized the way people write even up to today. Austen heavily influenced Charles Dickens and quite a few other writers, especially those who leaned toward realism etc. Whereas the Bronte sisters didn't want their works to even remotely resemble Austen's. I think they succeeded. Having said that, I don't know any author who has the command of the English language like Jane Austen and it's doubtful the Brontes would have written as well as they did without her. Both books in question here are beautifully written. I love all of Austen's writing because of that fact and I love the Bronte sisters books as well and even Anne Bronte's works have some great moments in them. But Wuthering Heights I do not like. It's well written and I cannot complain about anything in that regard - I don't like it on an emotional level. I don't like the characters. They seem to be unstable individuals who make themselves and everyone around them unhappy - and that's just depressing - not the kind of thing I want to read over and over again. But that's just my opinion because, really, comparing Pride and Prejudice to Wuthering Heights is comparing apples to oranges. The only thing you'll get is what people prefer on an emotional level because the two authors had completely different goals in their writing.
P & P, because I like Darcy more than I like Mr. Rochester. But they both have great moments.
Pride and Prejudice! I couldn't stand reading Wuthering Heights.
Is there any evidence to suggest that Emily Bronte despised Jane Austen as a writer, or even read her for that matter? The only one who's opinion stands is Charlotte Bronte, but this doesn't mean Anne nor Emily necessarily shared her views towards Austen.
wuthering heights is my least favorite book of all times. I was actually mad at myself for making myself read it. I wish I could forget it. Horrible, horrible book.
That's a very good but wicked question. P&P is so polite and WH is so passionate. It rips my heart out every time Heathcliff overhears Cathy talking about him and misunderstands. On the other hand, I admire Elizabeth Bennett so much.I guess it depends on whether you want a happy or sad ending...
And I can't believe anyone would chose Jane Eyre over Wuthering Heights. I thought both Jane and Rochester were so... dull. I didn't really care about either one of them.
Christos wrote: "Pat wrote: "That's a very good but wicked question. P&P is so polite and WH is so passionate. It rips my heart out every time Heathcliff overhears Cathy talking about him and misunderstands. On the..."No, it's not about how the book ends - I love 'Gone With the Wind', but the book doesn't end well for Scarlett and Rhett (although my imagination ALWAYS has then getting back together) - and what I was trying to say about P&P and WH was that I loved both books and have re-read each of them many times. The question was 'which one do you prefer' and I have to say that although there are some very heart-hurting parts in P&P, there is never the gut-tearing animalistic passion that can be found in WH.
And if Cathy and Heathcliff had ended up together (or at least alive) my answer might not be the same - but we'll never know.
I would have to say Pride and Prejudice. Wuthering Heights was excellent but in Pride and Prejudice you have more of a connection with the characters.
I read both for school. I prefer Pride and Prejudice
I too have read both but somehow I loved reading Pride and Prejudice and would not mind reading it again. I even wrote a blog on it:http://sanchitasarkar.wordpress.com/2...
Neither, Emma was my favorite. Not sure I ever managed to finish Wuthering Heights.
I prefer Pride and Prejudice. First, I loved it and second, Wuthering Heights is not that bad but I don't think that I'll read it again.
No comparison. They are two completely different novels and I loved them both for entirely different reasons.
I find difficult to compare the two books, partly because the style is so different and partly because they two of may favourite books, each in its own way.If I have to, I'd say Wutherung Heights is my favourite. It's a masterpiece and unique in its kind, very modern in thought and characters and compelling plot. It's passion put on paper.
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NO COMPARISONI enjoyed reading P&P once long ago....
I first read WH when I was at school around 13/14yrs old when it appealed to my "Love of the romantic". However I have re-read it again and again poss every 7 years and am amazed at how differently I view the book as I grow older (60 now). WH makes you think of family, characters, lives, situations, conflict, love, jealousy etc. Emotions which change as you mature and gain lifes experience. Maybe read it again and see if you agree.
Pride and Prejudice, hands down! I hated Wuthering Heights.
Pride and Prejudice. I didn't really like Wuthering Heights very much.
Wuthering Heights is far more than a romance novel. Pride and Prejudice is a brilliant evocation of a time and place but Wuthering Heights transcends genre.Though I have to say, only a woman would think a man could love so much he would dig up her corpse to hold her close.
I've already offered an opinion in this thread, but want to flesh it out a little more. What I detest about 'Wuthering Heights' is that it portrays love in a shape that is insufferably grotesque to me. Indeed, it does not even seem like love-- it seems a rather mindless, obsessive misconception of love from a profoundly emotionally injured person who, by not addressing his emotional wounds directly (ie, avoidance), is so distanced from an awareness of what love actually is, that he can project only self-loathing disguised as 'love'. This really is what injures the story for me-- that what is presented as love, is really a destructively unhealed injury being projected outward. The story seems to romanticize mental illness. I find it a story of profound lack of self-awareness and its devastating destructiveness, understandable as that lack of self-awareness is given the heart-rending abuse endured by Heathcliff in his formative years.All of that said, I find the story itself very well-written-- what I mean is, that Emily Bronte in my opinion was a very skilled writer. I credit her gift for expression, and on a side note credit her courageousness in challenging Victorian literary and social constraints so powerfully. Though I don't care for the story itself, I admire and appreciate the woman who wrote it.
P&P definitely. I really don't care for Wuthering Heights. Actually, I'm not really a fan of Emily Bronte. I prefer Charlotte (over Emily or Anne) for certain. I loved Jane Eyre and Villette is really good too.
Wow this is pretty difficult.. I'd say that Wuthering Heights is deeper than PP even if PP is a great book too. But thanks to Wuthering Heights Ive read Jane Eyre, then Villette, but I really dont know wich one to chose
Pride and Prejudice! No contest in my opinion. I couldn't understand what the fuss was about with Wuthering Heights. It's a tragedy, not a romance. And Heathcliff is far from a hero! He's ghastly!
As the person above said. I've read Wuthering Heights once and never again. I could easily go back and re-read Pride & Prejudice.
I have read Pride and Prejudice several times. I love it, it's my favorite book. I just finished reading Wuthering Heights. I never read it for school so I decided to read it on my own. I will never read it again. It was dreadful.
I prefer Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights is just too gloomy.
I like Wuthering Heights more. Pride and Prejudice is an excellent book, but Wuthering Heights has more intriguing character and story. It's also a harsh reality about two scared, silly, and mentally deficient children who are in love and don't know what to do with the emotion. Pride and Prejudice is more of a fairy-tale with no real heart pounding tear jerking emotion in it. They simply choose to be blind to their feelings whereas the former truly can't see that it's there until it's too late.
I definitely prefer P&P. WH is a good book but can read P&P over and over.
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